Importance Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

1005 Words3 Pages

In Harper Lee’s book, To Kill A Mockingbird, this book takes place on a small town called Maycomb. Two young childrens, Scout and Jem, are the childs to a Lawyer, Atticus, that is defending a black man. In this book, whites and blacks didn’t really got along with each other. This is called Prejudice and prejudice means to judge before getting to know and talk to the person/group, they judge by either how they look or their skin color. The story is teaching the readers a lesson, how throughout the book, how prejudice affected the relationship between blacks and whites. While some might argue that the lesson in the story could be “Kids fear what they do not understand, “ in the text it says how Cecil Jacobs told everyone in his school how Scout …show more content…

There is only blacks in jail, so this allows more white to stereotypes black as evil, dangerous, bad, but really they aren’t. This starts to allow more separation with whites and black. Because the prejudice had been growing around Maycomb, Childrens had been able to hear about it and bash it on others. Even kids show prejudice throughout the book. In Chapter 9, it said “Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced today that Scout Finch’s daddy defended nig*ers.” Now i believe that this was said on purpose, as an insult towards scout and her dad. It doesn’t really matter for Atticus, because he believes that everyone is equal and should be treated equal. Therefore, parents are the one to blame to show the prejudice towards …show more content…

Racism continued to happen, even after the case and the case was suppose to get them to realize it doesn’t matter about the skin color. Blacks are still trying hard to get the respect they want, Atticus had earned their respect. Even white kids learn from their parents that blacks could be dangerous as they could. Words can hurt you more than actions could. Maycomb stays a town with racism. As prejudice is starting to grow even more, the relationship between the races gets

Open Document